One trick I found with Knoppix is once you get a prompt do an su -. After that you are really root and can do what you need - assuming you mount stuff rw.
Joel Hammer wrote: > Fudgetta bout it. > For reasons unclear, my old kernel seems to be blown away, too. > So, I have to reinstall lindows. > And I'll forget about getting the Zire to work with linux. 8 hours is > enuf. BTW, knoppix was far from ideal as a rescue disk. It has security > restrictions which limit its usefulness. > Joel > > > IOn Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 03:30:51PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: >> I seem to have hosed my system. >> >> After rebuilding the kernel, I guess I ought to have run lilo again, for >> the umpteemth time, which I didn't bother doing. >> >> Now when I try to boot, no matter which image I use, it just hangs up >> during boot. I booted up with knoppix and chroot'ed to my proper root >> directory. When I try to run lilo I am told that /dev/hda is not >> available or somesuch. This is in my lilo.conf >> >> boot=/dev/hda >> map=/boot/map >> >> I have also noticed that /boot is empty, no map there! >> >> So, the question is, what is the way to get the system to boot again. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
